The physics of history

The physics of history

D. J. Helfand, 1950-

DVD - 2009

An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.

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Subjects
Physics.
Physics > Study and teaching.
Documentary films.
Published
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company [2009]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Teaching Company
Main Author
D. J. Helfand, 1950- (-)
Corporate Author
Teaching Company (-)
Item Description
24 lectures, 30 min. each.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (146 pages ; 19 cm)
Format
DVD.
ISBN
9781598035452
  • disc 1. Vast reaches of time and space
  • Fundamentally, what's the world made of?
  • Energy in the atomic world
  • The atomic basis of the senses
  • Radioactivity: nature's imperturbable clock
  • From detecting forgeries to the First Art
  • disc 2. Watching plaster dry- and dating it
  • We are what we eat: the history of diet
  • A plant is what it eats: tracing agriculture
  • Tree rings: seasons of the past 12,000 years
  • Ice cores: climate records for 800 millennia
  • Ocean sediments reveal 5 million years
  • disc 3. A bad day in June: death of the dinosaurs
  • The origin and early history of life
  • The history of Earth's atmosphere
  • The Age of the Solar System
  • What happened before the Sun was born
  • Atoms are star stuff: cooking up carbon
  • disc 4. The lives of big stars: cooking up big atoms
  • Relativity: space and time become spacetime
  • (Almost) everything is relative
  • Matter vanishes; light speed is breached?
  • The limits of vision- 13.7 billion years ago
  • The first few minutes: where it all began.

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